RollerCoaster Tycoon® Touch™ Reviews

by Rbranch302

I updated the iOS app from the Apple App Store on July 9, 2020 and now I LOST all my game progress from the past few years. I went from a level above 200 to level 1. The update removed my years of progress. I lost everything in the Main Park and Waterpark and had just restarted another scenario for restaurants. I also had created a corporation which never developed into anything because I used all the initial tickets. I can’t remember how much money was in each park but the Waterpark was more than 300,000,000 and the Main Park had more than 3,500,000,000 since I was just making money and not adding anything. I went from level 200+ to level 1 with the game giving me tutorial prompts. My Main Park had all rides installed, restaurants, shops... and had 100% rating in Food, Fun and Hygiene. My waterpark had all rides, shops and restaurants plus 4 collectors and 4 heart generator covering the whole waterpark with 100% satisfaction in all categories. I had multiple of the same items and rides installed and everything is gone. I also lost all the special event items like Christmas, Halloween and Easter items. I lost more than 3900 Tickets and 5700 hearts. I lost all the cards I purchased and collected over the past couple of years.

by Pissedmillennial

I downloaded this game as it was a blast from my past and I like these type of games to play when I need to decompress. I downloaded the game 3 days ago, loved it, was having fun etc. Every time I come back to the game, it asks which game do I want to continue, the current game or the saved game. Both are not user friendly in choosing because the stats on them never match what I know my stats are at. Having to choose one to get to the next screen, I always chose “current game” because its what made sense even though the stats didn’t match. My progressed was lost. I was only on level 18 so I was upset but still new so decided to just start over. So I did, and I made some purchases so I felt like I was back at where I was the day before. This is day three and the lost progression has happened AGAIN. There is also no way to retrieve my purchases(real USD spent) or any of my progress from the game. Which is confusing because I am logged into the Game Center and my Apple ID. If I’m logged in why do I keep having to choose which game I want to continue, and why is it always bringing me back to the very beginning of the game. There is also a lot of little glitches where I have to physically close RollerCoasterTycoon because the game crashed or is frozen. Maybe that’s why my games keep getting reset? But being logged in you would think you will have an archive of past purchases or just a more user friendly way in staying logged in.

by TanrrP

You know, I’m kind of sad. This used to be one of my favorite games on the pc when I was younger, but how it has been set up on the touch devices is an utter disappointment. You’ve turned an awesome game into one that is greedy and looking for money instead of letting us enjoy how this game used to be. Sure you could say you’re trying to provide us all with more content and abilities but we all know that that is a load of lies. You’ve turned a game that I would have happily paid $5 or $10 for on the touch devices into one that is merely impossible to progress quickly unless you fall into the In App Purchases Ponzi scheme. So I would ask you as a company, is your goal just to make money or allow the customer to thoroughly enjoy their experience playing your game. Enough with all of these in app purchases and get back to the real goal of creating an immersive, enjoyable game for all people whether they are rich or poor. Was really excited about this game, but have left disappointed. Hopefully I’m the only one that feels this way, but I know I’m not. Sorry you’ve felt the need to change the game so drastically as to entice the user to keep spending additional money. I’ll be glad to hear the day that you do end up going back to your roots and once again you’ll have a loyal fan. I know you have to make money somehow, but isn’t there another way?

by TheLadyOverThere

This is a pretty fun game for those of us enjoying the nostalgia of RCT, BUT..... the glitching makes it incredibly frustrating and honestly a little criminal if you’ve paid real money (which I did.) Two weeks and hours of gameplay later, I just deleted it. The game continuously doesn’t save work or doesn’t save cards earned. You usually don’t realize it until you suddenly realize “wait..... I put Go Carts there yesterday. Where are they?” You would think that your coins would reflect not purchasing something since it appears like it’s just not saving a gaming session but that doesn’t appear to be the case. It’s impossible to keep track of how many coins you are missing and what didn’t save so contacting support seems like it would be challenging since you don’t know what to ask for. Also, I could never get the “corporation” social team situation to work and that appears to be a pretty big deal in later levels. None of the teams I applied for accepted me and I even spent the money to start my own team and no one joined. I’m thinking that feature is broken? Who knows. I’m out. Again, this could have been really fun but it seems pretty sketchy that they are knowingly running a game that takes coins and doesn’t save work while still offering in app purchases.

by Husgedj

This is a well made game. Major problem I have is the fact that you need cards to upgrade everything. It significantly slows down the process of building your theme park business and makes it really boring after a while because you have to wait a really long time to get anything done. If cards have to be a part of the game I wish we could at least specifically choose which cards we would like to receive rather than just getting randomized crummy cards. 90% of the time I receive cards to things I already have a ton of or am not interested in receiving (aka flags and the same roller coaster upgrade). To be honest I deleted this game for a year after I had spent real life money and spent a lot of time on the game. Even after spending money, it’s still been hard to progress and get what I need. I re-downloaded the game this week forgetting why I left originally and now that I’ve been playing again, I realized I was right to ditch this game in the first place. THE CARD SETUP IS GARBAGE. Hope someone is trying to work this out because i would like to continue supporting this game financially when it becomes worth it. Giving 2 stars instead of 1 because everything else is great about the game. The cards really ruined it though.

by Kbdubz<3music

This is such a great game, and so fun to play, but it’s so hard to move up without making in app purchases. It’s possible, but it takes forever, and you can’t really get past a certain point without help. Or at least it loses the fun. Also, at the higher levels most of the rides and things are priced so impossibly high you’d have to use real money to buy coins. One of them is about 7,900,000 coins. Guess how much 8,000,000 coins cost? $20!! $20 for a ride in a video game that doesn’t even add any actual gameplay features. Or you could wait all week to make the $8,000,000. That’s just one example of how they overvalue/over charge for every little thing. I used to play this new version but got so tired of the in app purchase model I stopped a while ago. I recently redownloaded RCT Classic and I’ve been playing all week (and all my life when it was on pc) and haven’t been able to put it down. I picked this up, and after less than an hour I’m over it. It takes too long to make money, there’s no way to speed up time, the only way to progress quicker or open up the game more is to spend a ridiculous amount of actual money on coins and tickets. All I’m asking is that the developer is more reasonable with how they price things, I understand they need to make money, but I really don’t even enjoy the game because of how greedy they’ve become. This would be the BEST game if they weren’t so money hungry 😕 really a bummer

by Rahuqraf

Took 2 days to receive the items from my first in-game purchase. The screen gets quite crowded with all the peep bubbles and coins, so I’d like to see an option to turn off the peep bubbles and maybe a “Collect All Coins” button. Sometimes my money and tickets don’t update properly, and I have to reload the game. Other times, rides and attractions can’t be clicked and I have to reload the game. I’d like to see more active communication from the developers. This would show me that they’re actively working on fixing specific issues within the game, and offer modest gifts (card packs, tickets, etc) for the inconvenience. I’m sure most of us spend plenty, and a couple little freebies isn’t going to affect their bottom line. Overall entertaining and a decent way to pass the time, but the game issues make it hard to rate over 3 stars. Lots of potential here, though!

Edit: after a few months of playing now, I’ve maxed out the land, and filled it with attractions. I’m gaining new attractions as I level, with no place to put them. Without additional land expansions to purchase, this game is getting more boring by the day.

Edit again: I log in a couple times a day to pick up coins by habit, but there’s not much more to do. No room, no more expansions. Could use an update for more land slots.

by ColoradoDreamin18

It makes sense that rides and things are on the card system, but stuff like janitors and repairmen? The park HAS to be maintained. Customers are not happy when the park isn’t correctly maintained and who can blame them? Piles of garbage and puke everywhere! But I can’t do anything about it because I haven’t gotten that one particular card yet. This is super frustrating and makes me want to quit playing what is otherwise a fun game. I even spent real life money on a card pack and got 10+ copies of 4 cards I already had instead of anything new...

Maybe at least the cards could be separated into categories: rides, food, decorations, park support, etc. Then those cards could be on different levels where park services is on the bottom (easiest to get), then food, then decorations, then at the top (hardest to get) are the rides. You could let people trade in a certain amount of lower level cards to get top level cards. Otherwise just take things like bathrooms and janitors off the card system entirely and let people just buy them... It’s impossible to have happy customers when the place is a mess, janitors ARE NOT optional and my park is suffering over this ridiculous issue. I can’t be the only one.

Otherwise this game is great and I’d happily give it 5 stars if this issue was fixed.

by Lauren Sadouly

I downloaded RollerCoasterTycoon because I used to play something very similar when I was younger, so you can imagine how exited I was to play it. I was on RollerCoasterTycoon for the whole day and I have to say that I’m just really disappointed.

First off I quickly noticed that all the rides and food attractions are super overpriced. C’mon, I mean how can you get a 1,000,000 dollar ride when you only get like 300 coins per hour. Even if I miraculously had that many coins I’d have to have several cards for that ride!! The whole card thing is rigged too because you never get the card you need when you buy a pack. So I’m basically stuck. No coins. No new cards. No nothing. Just angry people. Oh and apparently you have to upgrade all the stuff for “hygiene” over and over and the prices go up. The prices are getting astronomical!! More dang coins that I don’t have. Even a single tree is like 2,000 coins! I refuse to pay real money tho cause I would have to pay like 20 bucks everyday to get the customers happy. I just want a nice peaceful time making this amusement park but instead it made me super stressed and angry. Other than that the graphics are good and it doesn’t take a while to load.

So if you can handle all that, drain your bank account, dedicate all your time to this, then oh boy is this RollerCoasterTycoon for you.

by Sstrick93

I like that the game is somewhat reminiscent of the original PC games that I remember. I have been playing the game for a little over a month now and I am getting bored. I am doing everything I can to try to bring up my stats, however it takes coins and tickets to do so but yet the inventory items you can buy are much more expensive then the amount of coins you earn for tasks and activities. I also don’t like when I am finally able to buy what they call “card packs” I seem to keep getting the same cards over and over again and I keep updating and updating the same items and when I do get a new item I can’t even buy because it’s so expensive compared to coins I am able to earn. I wish there were possibly more side tasks I could do to earn more currency other then just build up the park because I can’t even build up the park without more coins. I just can’t seem to earn enough coins and do enough activities to keep me engaged and I’m starting to play less and less. I’m sure someone who plays this game very often will have better luck then I seem to have but I have kids and a job so I can only play once a day when I am home and undistracted. Would like to see this game do well but I’m just so bored with it that I don’t even really look forward to playing anymore.

by Piñata Magonia Poppy

Now, I like how in the game you can customize your own rollercoasters, but it also takes a lot of patience. The game, for me, doesn’t represent the goodness that is the Rollercoaster Tycoon franchise. I feel like with the other games in the franchise, it wasn’t as restrictive and there was more to do. This game and its gameplay just tends to feel very stunted and like a poor mans version of the others. It felt like it was made my a fan and not by Atari itself. This I say with complete honesty. I’m going to go download another Atari game, probably get the old version for 5.99 on my tablet here, because I’m currently bored. It also aggravated me how the people would always say the same thing. Like, it needs maintenance, or I love this, or love that, on a constant cycle. Now I know this is how it works, but the dialogue of the visitors to your park wasn’t very diverse and it was quite an influence for insanity (in my opinion) so I stopped clicking on the little people walking through my park because I expected the same thing. The other games, while they aren’t all the game and I wouldn’t expect them to be, at least had more diverse dialogue with the characters and things made more sense as they were more clarified. The point, this game has a lot of potential, but it needs a lot of work.

by CcKing0024

When I initially downloaded the game I was excited. However, once I did so I found myself looking at a bunch of nonsense. Don’t get me wrong, I do believe this game can be fun for some people. Like toddlers or children in kindergarten. I know some will say that I’m doing nothing but trying to insult the developers. I can honestly say that this is completely untrue. The simple truth is that this game takes absolutely no skill whatsoever to play. It is nothing more than a time killer. Having said that, I believe there are some areas of the game I found rather enjoyable. The main one is being able to design and build a roller coaster. But other than that.. you are pretty much done.
As I said earlier, I honestly believe that this game is best suited for children. My reasons are simple. Bright colors. Music and sound and lots of moving parts. Perfect for a developing mind. By engaging the game, your child’s eyes will light up and the smile on his/her face will never fade. The game will teach them several valuable skills as they progress. Problem solving. Priority of certain tasks and functions. And most importantly... it will teach your child patience. And those of us who have children are keenly aware of how important that is.

by Pig❤️cat22

It’s really FUN but I would love it if you could “go inside” shops and upgrade the inside and choose the colors & furniture of the shops. Then it would be a mix between a design game and this one and everyone would want to play it!!!! I play the game called Design Home & it’s one of the BIGGEST games right now. If you made a cross between that game and that one, yours would be one of the BIGGEST games right now. You could come up with themes and bundles that people could (so you would make $$) & if you REALLY wanted to take it to the next level, you could make it partly into a cooking game. For example, the burger shop: you could go inside, choose the interior design, posters on the wall, furniture, and then you could cook your own dishes (like with cooking games, where you make the patty, and put the burger together) and sell to customers! And to make it THE most EPIC game: you could name your rides. If you did this, I would tell all the people I know about this fame and write TONS of reviews and send links to people!!!!!!!!!! Please consider this cute 11 year old girl’s advice!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would to have a response.

by RebelSean90

Overall this is a 4-star game, as far as fun, reliability, and overall satisfaction is concerned. If the update process was smoother I would give it a 5 star review. I’ve played this for a little over a year now, recently went VIP as it reminds me of the older PC version. However I’ve noticed over the last few months, with each update major bugs and problems are making it to the general public. An example being the 3.2 update that brings the Six Flags Season 2, all players are currently locked out of their main parks for some reason. Support teams are working around the clock for a fix, but as a seasoned beta tester this is something that just shouldn’t make it to a general public release. I wish they’d look at how they are running their beta program and open it up a little to the more elite players so that we don’t keep getting releases they are broke, that loose progress, etc. You can’t grow a player base with updates like this. Also, there needs to be better support representation on your social media platforms as they are growing larger and larger with no response for help, etc etc. A seasoned remote work from home job could be created that could engage these people and bring revenue in, which I know is what the ultimate goal of this game is (Hint hint, I’m looking for a work from home job!).

by Bkplzyz

I made a review b4 this one but I didn’t put a few veeerrrryyyyy important things on it. The one thing I hate about this game is that every time I open a card pack its doubles doubles doubles ANNOYING DOUBLES 😳😤🤯!!! I have 144/4 bathrooms!! I don’t need my bathrooms to be lvl 20!! Like srsly! I only get one new card a day at MOST! it’s extremely annoying and makes the game get boring becuz you won’t have anything to do!!! game developers, IT NEEDS TO BE FIXED ASAP!!! Also with the janitors and how they have to only go in specific land tiles? They don’t. They just wander around the park until I pick up there place and put it back down. Also sometimes they ignore trash unless you pick up the janitor place and put it back down. One thing. This isn’t something I think is annoying or the devs did wrong, it’s just a suggestion. So I was just playing one day imagining a commercial for my park and at the end I realized that my park didn’t have a name! I think you should be able to name your park. And I LOOOVVVEEEE how you don’t have to wait for things to be built which makes you spend tickets. Thanks for being cooperative Atari! Other then that great game! 👍👍👍 p.s. thanks for reading this. Sorry it was so long.

by Riley D'awn Towell

RCT touch is a really good game you can build things you have factories you have a ride do you have eating places like restaurants and you have games in there kind of like fortuneteller and ice you can have however many you want but you have to upgrade them but this game is one of the best games ever and I really like this and I have never given a review like this ever in my life all my other of years have just been lying OK yeah this is like kind a good but not the best game ever so thank y’all for just like making this game that’s how my other reviews would be so if y’all could upgrade the game that would be fine like more rice extra things and here’s another thing that I don’t like feel that great I would like y’all to upgrade I would like y’all to go upgrade the roller coasters like in Addmore colors and will just make the game better I love however you made this game just if you okayed this for me I will I will pay you $1,006,964 to upgrade this game JK well this game has been a great time for me so I would like y’all to just help me out here so I just want y’all to help me out here like I already said so if y’all would just like a grade one of the things that I said that would be amazing because I really really like this game and I don’t want to have to delete it so y’all please do one of the things that I asked

by I❤️Macaws

I love Roller Coaster Tycoon so much, it’s one of my favorite games to play. I play this game on a daily basis. One of my favorite parts about the game is the randomness of the cards inside of the free card packs. Since the game gives you these cards randomly it’ll keep you interested so you’ll want to keep playing until you have all of the cards. Another one of my favorite features of this game is that sometimes when you tap on the peep thought bubbles you’ll gain appreciation hearts, which can be used for different things later on in the game. There is just one part about the appreciation heart system that I am not a huge fan of, I think that we should start gaining appreciation hearts at an earlier level so we have a higher chance to get them. Other than that minor thing I think the game is amazing, though it can be frustrating at times it’ll keep you constantly thinking about how to make your park guests as happy and content as possible. If you’re not sure about this game I highly recommend downloading it and giving it a shot. I hope everyone who reads this has a nice day.

by Pantsmcgee123

I love this game and I’m addicted in the last 3 days so I’ll definitely give 5 stars. Just a couple things that I’ve noticed though. I didn’t really like how i had to pull for a janitors card. It took me like over 2 days to get the card and my park was trashed by then. I don’t think you should have to pull for any of the service cards, because they directly affect your happiness rating so it seems unfair to leave it up to chance. Also the ads literally never work. Like pretty much every time I’ve claimed my free card pack I’ll tap the thing that says “watch an ad for another free pack,” and then nothing will happen. Finally, the park editor could be a little more intuitive. I’m in the park editor where I’ve intentionally gone to rearrange all of my stuff, why is there a pop up asking if im sure every single time i was to remove an item? It should be the opposite i should be able to select a massive eraser and just delete every building in a small area so i can rearrange them. Love the game tho five stars fs

by Woodland Harpy

Okay so this game is really fun. You create this park and collect coins. Graphics are really good. One thing though that I’ve noticed: is the game there are “Janitors”. Each one has a building that covers a certain area of the park and they’ll clean up the “messes” which are usually little splotches of color created to look like smashed or dropped trash. Each time the little janitor guy goes to sweep, they stand ON the mess and sweep right in front of it. It gets rid of the mess, but it’s off. And then them cleaning like, seems to alert the other the janitors and they all converge in one area of the park. Which is great that they’re enthusiastic about cleaning. Just, they need to clean their area. Cos I don’t really want my 5 janitors all cleaning the same spot. And then a janitor coming up and re-sweeping. The janitors just do weird stuff. Basically, except for their weird habits, the game seems to work perfectly. Although, really recently every time I level up, RCT gives a message like “RCT has crashed, please close and reopen.” So, perfect game except tiny, minuscule details.

by Abuehrlen

I have played this game since near the beginning. It is a very fun game. I lost my whole park layout due to a glitch. I was very frustrated because I put in a lot of work. Support was slow to work with me but in hindsight I didn’t have all the facts. They responded slowly for nearly 2 weeks having me try different things. They responded with an empathetic and transparent message letting me know the issue was affecting more than myself. They weren’t able to recover my park however I provided info they requested about my layout and in kindly they provided me with cards and resources to get me very close to what I had in my original layout. As a trainer myself I te d to forget that it does take time when there’s a tech issue to investigate and resolve it and they deploy the resolution. I very much appreciate their honesty and working with me to get me as close to what I had as they could. This is is a great game and I recommend it to all. If you have issues please be patient and work through them with support to resolve them.